The Ride+Stride event has been organised by Nottinghamshire Historic Churches Trust (NHCT) annually since 1991. Participants attempt to visit as many churches as possible between 10 am and 6 pm on 9th September by riding (on a bicycle/horse) or striding (walking/running) between them. All sponsorship money raised is shared equally between NHCT (towards the provision of grants for maintaining historic churches in the county) and the participant’s own church.

Last year, I visited 48 churches (including all in our own parish of Wiverton in the Vale), raising around £1100 for NHCT and St John the Divine, Colston Bassett.

This year, having previously visited most of the churches between Loughborough and Newark, I am hoping to visit churches in the north of the county, and I would greatly value your support in this venture.

I shall be donating the 'own church' portion of the sponsorship money to the St Mary’s Church renovation appeal, which is aiming to raise about £30k for necessary repairs to this historic ruined church in Colston Bassett.

If you would like to sponsor me, you can choose to:

● fill in my ‘physical’ sponsor form if you see me in church

● complete an online sponsor form (and I will arrange to collect any payment after the event)

● contact me using my details on the parish Who's Who page

● donate a fixed amount through the JustGiving site (click Give Now on this page) - please note that if you do this, you will find that the default option (in the blue box) is to make an additional contribution of 15% of your chosen amount to help fund the JustGiving platform. If you are comfortable with this, just accept the default; if not, you can select 'Other' and enter any amount from £0 upwards.

Many thanks for any help you can give.

Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. Your details are safe with JustGiving - they'll never sell them on or send unwanted emails. Once you donate, they'll send your money directly to the charity. So it's the most efficient way to donate - saving time and cutting costs for the charity.